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3232127682441Generation Gap Will End The Republican Partyhttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/16/generational-gap-will-end-republican-party/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/16/generational-gap-will-end-republican-party/#commentsFri, 16 Mar 2018 21:20:43 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7667by Wes Walker via libertyisftw.org Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.” -Simon Sinek Earlier this month, Pew Research Center released their latest data on political party membership in the United States focusing on the generation gaps in American politics. What they’ve found is the Republican Party, after reversing years of positive trends, is fantastically doomed in November. To understand just how bad things really are, we have to rewind a bit to 2006, halfway through George W. Bush‘s second term and the first year…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/16/generational-gap-will-end-republican-party/feed/27667Conor Lamb Wins 18th CD Pennsylvania – Trump And GOP Continue Losing Streakhttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/14/conor-lamb-wins-18th-cd-pennsylvania/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/14/conor-lamb-wins-18th-cd-pennsylvania/#commentsThu, 15 Mar 2018 00:47:31 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7663by Richard Cameron It is now official – barring the possibility that a recount of the election is granted and the result indicates other than the final tally – Conor Lamb, Democrat candidate in Pennsylvania’s special election in the 18th Congressional District, has been declared the winner over GOP opponent, Rick Saccone – a Trump acolyte. Election observers were keenly intrigued about what the overall effect of Donald Trump’s visit to Pennsylvania to stump for Saccone would be. The election was widely seen as the latest in a series of…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/14/conor-lamb-wins-18th-cd-pennsylvania/feed/17663Rex Tillerson Dumped By Trump For Not Following Trump’s Line On Russiahttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/13/rex-tillerson-dumped-by-trump/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/13/rex-tillerson-dumped-by-trump/#respondWed, 14 Mar 2018 03:36:06 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7658by Richard Cameron Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired this morning (Tuesday) by Donald Trump. Trump’s manner of communicating the dismissal was via Twitter around 8:44 a.m. Eastern Time. . Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2018 The State Department issued…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/13/rex-tillerson-dumped-by-trump/feed/07658The Economy in Contexthttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/12/economy-in-context/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/12/economy-in-context/#respondTue, 13 Mar 2018 01:09:59 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7646by Wes Walker via libertyisftw.org The most recent job numbers released on March 9th by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, represented a strong preliminary number for February that, should they hold, could be a solid piece of good economic news since the tax reform bill passed last year. It remains likely that the numbers will not survive the tariffs put into place last week, assuming they aren’t revised downward next month, and, despite the bump in the stock market from the positive preliminary jobs numbers, it’s important to keep in…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/12/economy-in-context/feed/07646Dena vs. Dena: Two Sides Of Sanctuary Citieshttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/12/dena-vs-dena-sanctuary-cities/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/12/dena-vs-dena-sanctuary-cities/#respondMon, 12 Mar 2018 22:24:11 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7570By Dena Leichnitz This is Dena Takruri (video below), and this is her take on why we should keep sanctuary cities. All I have to say to her comments are, “Dena, you are wrong!” And believe me that is not a sentence I utter very often. So lets go over her comments and see why sanctuary cities are a bad thing and not helpful to society. In order to avoid confusion when I am referring to Ms. Takruri, I will use the initials DT and when referring to myself, I…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/12/dena-vs-dena-sanctuary-cities/feed/07570Tariffs – Retuning Another Engine that isn’t Brokenhttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/08/tariffs-retuning-another-engine-isnt-broken/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/08/tariffs-retuning-another-engine-isnt-broken/#commentsThu, 08 Mar 2018 16:56:43 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7632By Janice Barlow “Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government” – Milton Friedman AS OUR NATION ROLLS ALONG, it seems that not a day goes by without some new drama hitting the airwaves from Washington. If it isn’t someone being fired or resigning, it’s a knee-jerk reaction to a horrific event, like modifying the Second Amendment because of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, or a tweet-storm from the Commander-in-Chief about North Korea. We…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/08/tariffs-retuning-another-engine-isnt-broken/feed/17632Salvaging the Conservative Movementhttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/08/salvaging-conservative-movement/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/08/salvaging-conservative-movement/#commentsThu, 08 Mar 2018 15:17:03 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7628by Wes Walker via libertyisftw.org If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” –Will Rogers It goes without saying that the Republican Party has a credibility problem heading into the 2018 mid-terms. Even if Donald Trump is ultimately exonerated (fat chance) of all of the shady dealings and questionable collaborations with foreign powers, he’ll still already be responsible for reversing almost a decade of modest but steady economic gains, for polluting long standing foreign relationships, for what promises to be massive deficits coming in 2018, for an indefensible reversal on gun…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/08/salvaging-conservative-movement/feed/27628White House Economic Advisor Gary Cohn Resigns, Trump Admin In Damage Control Modehttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/06/gary-cohn-resigns-as-white-house-economic-advisor/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/06/gary-cohn-resigns-as-white-house-economic-advisor/#commentsWed, 07 Mar 2018 00:11:34 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7621by Richard Cameron Gary Cohn, officially announced his departure from his position as President Trump’s White House Economic Advisor and head of the administration’s Economic Council this afternoon. Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs is in the cleaning out his desk mode and will vacate his office within the next several days. Cohn issued a statement: “It has been an honor to serve my country and enact pro-growth economic policies to benefit the American people, in particular the passage of historic tax reform. I am grateful to the…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/06/gary-cohn-resigns-as-white-house-economic-advisor/feed/17621Jared Kushner’s Failed Security Clearance And The National Security Implicationshttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/05/jared-kushner-failed-security-clearance-national-security/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/05/jared-kushner-failed-security-clearance-national-security/#respondMon, 05 Mar 2018 16:23:28 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7603by Richard Cameron Trump and National Security Donald Trump contends that he is keenly concerned with matters of national security. So much so, that he has had a plan drawn up to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum on that basis – although economists and commerce experts have exposed the false premise and the potential catastrophe of such a move. But when it comes to shielding classified information from individuals not qualified to access such information, Trump has demonstrably no concerns. As was reported in recent days, President Trump’s…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/05/jared-kushner-failed-security-clearance-national-security/feed/07603Trump’s Self-Destructive Nature Is Why His Administration Was Doomed From The Starthttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/04/trumps-self-destructive-nature-administration-doomed-start/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/04/trumps-self-destructive-nature-administration-doomed-start/#respondMon, 05 Mar 2018 00:22:30 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7573by Tony Wyman We have witnessed this month the spiralling descent of a presidency doomed from the start. The media proclaimed recent revelations and departures to be “astounding” and “shocking,” but they are neither. Instead, what they are is inevitable. From the start of his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump made it abundantly clear that he was little more than a political vandal, a man intent upon creating as much conflict, discord and destruction as possible, and that he would leave in his wake lives wrecked and institutions weakened,…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/04/trumps-self-destructive-nature-administration-doomed-start/feed/07573Rustbelt Politics & The Death of Americahttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/03/rustbelt-politics-death-of-america/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/03/rustbelt-politics-death-of-america/#respondSat, 03 Mar 2018 23:40:18 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7572by Wes Walker via libertyisftw.org Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.” –Milton Friedman So Donald Trump‘s grand plan to restore America’s Rustbelt is slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and starting a trade war. His economically illiterate supporters, convinced as they are that flag waving and howling “‘Murica!” at anyone that doesn’t look like them constitutes sound economic policy, are predictably on board. Meanwhile, the left will oppose Donald’s plan, albeit…

]]>http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/03/rustbelt-politics-death-of-america/feed/07572School Shootings And The Factors Of Mental Illness – Part Onehttp://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/02/school-shootings-factors-mental-illness/
http://www.nationalcompass.net/2018/03/02/school-shootings-factors-mental-illness/#commentsFri, 02 Mar 2018 21:45:11 +0000http://www.nationalcompass.net/?p=7564by Richard Cameron With the most recent school shooting by Nikolas Cruz at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a number of solutions are being considered – with added measures of gun control in the forefront. Whether, and to what extent additional gun control legislation will in any way address the problem, is debatable – and of course, as you have noticed, is being debated. But in this first of a series of reports we will focus on one of the other common denominators in the shootings. …